Legal Opinion
United States v. $11,500.00 in United States Currency
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 5, 2017No. 14-35717PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Concurrence by Judge HURWITZ
OPINION
BYBEE, Circuit Judge
This appeal is from a civil forfeiture of $11,500 under 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6). The claimant and his wife are heroin addicts, who have been buying and selling drugs for most of their lives. When the claimant, through a friend, tried to post the $11,500 as bail for his wife, the government seized the cash. At trial, the government had two theories: first, that the money was proceeds from the claimant’s drug deals; second, that the claimant used or intended to me the money to facilitate drug transactions. The jury rejected the first…
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